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Front Office Trading Trends and Technologies...
Looking at today’s headlines which cite a seemingly spontaneous global resurgence in inflation, spiralling energy costs, reactive central bank rate hikes and disrupted mortgage markets, one could be f...
Stock markets volatility is commonly associated with investment risk. However, if the risk is effectively managed, it can also generate solid returns for investors. The investment managers and investo...
Regulatory reporting requirements and time-sensitive business data demands are forcing financial institutions to confront the challenges of defining their global data journey strategy. At stake is con...
Introduction: The Changing Trading and Investment Landscape The investment world, which previously relied on fund managers or advisors and was only accessible to high-net-worth individuals, has evolve...
Exchange marketplaces will experience several challenges during a recession, just like every other business. While cutting costs is prudent, failing to keep up with changes can jeopardize the long-ter...
For almost half a century, scientists across the world have put significant efforts in building quantum computers and were looking at use cases for wider adoption. Quantum Computing is a parallel com
What a day last Thursday! 2 years and 2 weeks elapsed since the last FIX EMEA trading conference in London! An absolute eternity! I felt excited like a schoolboy leaving home for the first day of the ...
While front-office technology has enabled trading in nanoseconds, post-trade processing remains manually intensive, opaque, restrictive and slow. Interoperable SaaS platforms can provide efficient, f...
The pandemic has propelled us into an environment where geography has become secondary. The ubiquitous Microsoft Teams or Zoom calls do not differentiate location when they bring everyone together in ...
The ship has sailed. Remote working will remain, post-Covid, even in wealth and asset management. The debate now centres around the balance between remote and office working, and the long term effects...
In the prior two blogs of this series, we had introduced the fragmented desktop, and outlined the advantages of using a Desktop Integration Platform (DIP) to solve the problem. In this blog, we look...
Older technology is underperforming, as are the services built upon it. Where a financial institution has placed significant investment in a core system over many years there comes a point where the t...